Sorry, this movie came out in 2009, but today, I installed a Bluray player in my computer, hooked it up to a 1080P LED 32" display and just got a new set of analog Black Ops 5.1 surround sound head set and tried it all out with the bluray edition of Watchmen and I am just in awe.
Did some of us really quibble with this brilliant adaptation of the greatest geek fest of all time? Yeah, I'm geeking out on my new toys, but I'm also in awe of the acting, direction, art design, sound, costumes, music sound track, etc. This movie is just brilliant.
You would think the episodic nature of the story would make watching this movie unpleasant, tiresome, and unwatchable (think Robocop 2 by Frank Miller, which I hoped would be awesome). Yet, this all works so well. The pacing is smooth and unforced. It is episodic yet gripping and fascinating.
The reverence for the source material is almost unmatched. I can't think of anything as word for word as this (fails a bit at the end... DID I JUST QUIBBLE!??!?!) Can't help it. I don't understand why (If you've read the series) Snyder stayed so on point through over 2 hours, but kinda chickened out at the end like that. But this is such a small quible. I'm watching Night Owl and Silk Spectre take out Archie and can't get over how exciting and enobling this scene is. It tops the heroics of just about anything in the Xmen and FF series I can think of. These are heroes being heroes.
I think we are all (us geeks anyway) just blessed that we live in such a time as we can enjoy something like this.
Maybe we need to still be hyper critical and quibble with greatness, but I hope our quibbles don't blind us to such amazing achievements. We all should be grateful.
Did some of us really quibble with this brilliant adaptation of the greatest geek fest of all time? Yeah, I'm geeking out on my new toys, but I'm also in awe of the acting, direction, art design, sound, costumes, music sound track, etc. This movie is just brilliant.
You would think the episodic nature of the story would make watching this movie unpleasant, tiresome, and unwatchable (think Robocop 2 by Frank Miller, which I hoped would be awesome). Yet, this all works so well. The pacing is smooth and unforced. It is episodic yet gripping and fascinating.
The reverence for the source material is almost unmatched. I can't think of anything as word for word as this (fails a bit at the end... DID I JUST QUIBBLE!??!?!) Can't help it. I don't understand why (If you've read the series) Snyder stayed so on point through over 2 hours, but kinda chickened out at the end like that. But this is such a small quible. I'm watching Night Owl and Silk Spectre take out Archie and can't get over how exciting and enobling this scene is. It tops the heroics of just about anything in the Xmen and FF series I can think of. These are heroes being heroes.
I think we are all (us geeks anyway) just blessed that we live in such a time as we can enjoy something like this.
Maybe we need to still be hyper critical and quibble with greatness, but I hope our quibbles don't blind us to such amazing achievements. We all should be grateful.
